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Richard Hickock
Richard Eugene Hickock (1931-1965), American murderer who with Perry Smith killed the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas, on November 15, 1959; convicted 1960, hanged April 14, 1965; subject of Capote's In Cold Blood.
Richard Huckle
Richard William Huckle was a British child sex offender from Ashford, Kent, who abused children in Malaysia and Cambodia while posing as a volunteer teacher.
Richard J. Arcara
Richard J. Arcara, born 1940 in Buffalo, is a senior United States district judge for the Western District of New York, appointed by President Reagan in 1988.
Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility
Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility (RJD, RJDCF), California state prison for men on Otay Mesa, San Diego, opened July 1987, CDCR-run, Levels I–IV, SNY yards, only state prison in San Diego County.
Richard J. Leon
Richard J. Leon, born in 1949 in South Natick, Massachusetts, is a senior United States district judge for the District of Columbia, appointed by President George W. Bush in 2002.
Richard J. Sullivan
Richard J. Sullivan, born 1964, is an American jurist serving as a United States circuit judge on the Second Circuit since 2018, appointed by President Trump.
Richard K. Eaton
Richard K. Eaton (born 1948) is an American jurist serving as a senior judge of the United States Court of International Trade since 2014, appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1999.
Richard Kleindienst
Richard Gordon Kleindienst (1923–2000), Arizona lawyer and Republican, 68th U.S. Attorney General under Nixon (1972–1973); resigned in the Watergate scandal and in 1974 pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor for false confirmation-hearing testimony about the ITT antitrust case.
Richard Kuklinski
Richard Kuklinski, "The Iceman" (1935–2006), New Jersey murderer convicted of five killings plus a police detective's murder, sentenced to consecutive life terms; his claims of 100+ Mafia hits were widely disputed. Not the Polish spy Ryszard Kukliński.
Richard L. Voorhees
Richard L. Voorhees is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge for the Western District of North Carolina, appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1988.
Richard L. Young
Richard L. Young, born 1953, is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge for the Southern District of Indiana since 2023.
Richard Lee McNair
Richard Lee McNair (born 1958) is an American murderer and repeat prison escapee who broke out three times (1988, 1992, 2006), once by mailing himself out of USP Pollock in a mailbag pallet, and was recaptured in Canada in 2007.
Richard Lee Tabler
Richard Lee Tabler (1979-2025), Texas death row inmate executed February 13, 2025 for the 2004 Killeen murders of Mohamed-Amine Rahmouni and Haitham Zayed; also confessed to killing Tiffany Dotson and Amanda Benefield; triggered 2008 prison lockdown via smuggled cell phone.
Richard Linn
Richard Linn, born in 1944, is an American jurist serving as a senior judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit since 2012.
Richard M. Berman
Richard M. Berman, born in 1943, is a senior United States district judge for the Southern District of New York, appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1998.
Richard M. Gergel
Richard Mark Gergel, born 1954 in Columbia, South Carolina, is a United States district judge for the District of South Carolina since 2010, appointed by President Barack Obama.
Richard Matt
Richard Matt (1966–2015), Tonawanda, New York murderer and repeat escapee; with David Sweat he cut out of Clinton Correctional Facility's Honor Block in June 2015, triggering a $23 million manhunt ending in his death in Malone.
Richard Painter
Richard W. Painter (born 1961) is an American law professor, S. Walter Richey Professor of Corporate Law at the University of Minnesota, and former chief White House ethics lawyer under George W. Bush (2005–2007), later a CREW vice chair, Trump ethics critic, and 2018 DFL Senate candidate.
Richard Posner
Richard Posner is an American jurist and legal scholar who served on the Seventh Circuit from 1981 to 2017 and led the law and economics movement.
Richard R. Clifton
Richard R. Clifton, born in 1950, is an American jurist serving as a senior United States circuit judge of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals since 2016.
Richard Ramirez
Richard Ramirez (Ricardo Leyva Muñoz Ramirez), the Night Stalker, American serial killer and burglar who committed nighttime home invasions in California 1984–1985, convicted of 13 murders in 1989, sentenced to death, died of B-cell lymphoma at San Quentin in 2013.
Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich
Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich (1496/7-1567), English lawyer and lord chancellor under Edward VI; solicitor-general under Henry VIII, whose sole testimony at Thomas More's 1535 trial fixed his reputation for perjury and opportunism.
Richard Speck
Richard Speck (1941–1991), American mass murderer who killed eight student nurses in Chicago on July 13–14, 1966; survivor Corazon Amurao identified him; convicted 1967, died in Stateville prison of a heart attack.
Richard T. Ford
Richard T. Ford is an American legal scholar, the George E. Osborne Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, known for books on race and civil rights law.
Richard Topcliffe
Richard Topcliffe (1531–1604), also called the priestfinder-general, was Elizabethan England's most infamous torturer, a Privy Council rack-master who hunted Catholic priests and read their books forensically.
Richard W. Roberts (judge)
Richard W. Roberts, born in 1953, is an American jurist who served as a federal district judge in Washington, D.C., appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1998.
Richard W. Story
Richard W. Story, born in 1953 in Augusta, Georgia, is a United States district judge for the Northern District of Georgia since 1998, appointed by Bill Clinton.
Richard Wagner (judge)
Richard Wagner, 18th Chief Justice of Canada since December 18, 2017 and Supreme Court of Canada judge since October 5, 2012; former Montreal litigator, Quebec Court of Appeal judge, and administrator of the Government of Canada in 2021.
Richard Wershe Jr.
Richard Wershe Jr., "White Boy Rick," Detroit FBI informant recruited at 14 in 1984, convicted under Michigan's 650-lifer law, served about 30 years, helped Operation Backbone, released July 20, 2020.
Richardson family murders
Richardson family murders: April 2006 killings of Marc, Debra, and Jacob Richardson in Medicine Hat, Alberta, by 12-year-old Jasmine Richardson and 23-year-old Jeremy Steinke; her sentence was capped at ten years under the Youth Criminal Justice Act.